What We Have Been Up To

We have been absent for a while and I wanted to give an update on some of the things we have been doing.

1.  Reading these wonderful Biscuit books almost every day!  Adeline loves these and so do I.  They are simple and use repetitive language, making them very predictable.

  2.  Playing with Unfix Cubes.  These are great little manipulatives that really work fine motor skill.  These cubes are also used to teach many math skills such as patterning, counting, sorting, counting, etc.  Right now we are just learning how to put them together.     

 

3.  Coloring our ABC's

4.  Learning animals,  I recently found a great box of social studies and science cards.  The cards are actual photographs.  We have been working on the animals first.

 
5.  Putting clothes pins off and on a box.

These are a few of the thing we have been doing during the past few week.   Adeline is scheduled for heart surgery in about three week.  We are praying that she stay healthy until then.

Following Directions and Interactive Books

Yesterday I put together some simple books.  I bought some stickers from The Dollar Tree and made two books to practice directions.  As you can see I just wrote these out with my Sharpie nothing fancy.

Book one is "Touch".

Each practices some of the skills that we have already learned such as big, little, colors and numbers.  You can customize this to what you child has learned.

Second books is "Where"  practising a wh word,

Again you can us stickers of things that your child has learned to reinfore their skills.

Sensory Corn

Today we made Indian Corn.  Talking about the colors and bumpy and corn.  First, we glued some ripped colors onto a piece of foam and then glued the popcorn on top of that.

Our finished product.

When we finished we did some corn scooping.  This is a simple activity but great for fine motor skills.

Holiday Sorting and Matching

Many concepts can be reinforced with matching and sorting.  Today I created five different matching or sorting activities that practice different concepts.

Our first activity is Turkey matching or sorting shapes using milk caps.
http://www.earlylearningactivities.com/PDF/whotooktheturkey.pdf

The second activity is color matching snowman using pompoms.
http://www.earlylearningactivities.com/PDF/cbsm.pdf

The third is matching upper case letters to lower case letter snowflakes.  I used foam circles so that I could write on them.
http://www.earlylearningactivities.com/PDF/snowflakesongs.pdf

The fourth activity is matching number penguins.
http://www.earlylearningactivities.com/PDF/fivepenguins.pdf

 The fifth matching activity is matching buttons on a Christmas Tree.
http://www.earlylearningactivities.com/PDF/treepuzzle.pdf

Hope these learning activities make your holidays a little more fun.   

Learning Colors

I am on a milkcap run right now.  They are great free learning!  I made this game way to difficult for Adeline but I wanted to have it done so that she could grow into it.

For this activity I used milkcaps and paint chips from a paint department.  You will need two chips of the same color, one for the cap the other for matching.  I cut circles out and glue guned them onto the lid.

You can start however simple or difficult your child needs.  I used about six colors with Adeline.